Volume 16 - November 1983
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Book Reviews
Life and Earth Sciences - Roy Porter (ed.), The Earth generated and anatomized. By William Hobbs. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and British Museum (Natural History) 1981. Pp. 158. £24.50/$43.75; £16 (paperback).
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Medical Sciences - Georges Canguilhem, On the normal and the pathological. Trans, by Carolyn R. Fawcett. Dordrecht, Boston, & London: D. Reidel, 1978. Pp. xxvi + 208. Dfl60./$29.00; Dfl30./$14.50 (paperback). - F. Kräupl Taylor, The concepts of illness, disease and morbus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 131. £6.50.
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Life and Earth Sciences - S. M. Andrews, The discovery of fossil fishes in Scotland up to 1845. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1982. Pp. 87. £5.00.
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Alchemy and Parapsychology - Robert Halleux, Les textes alchimiques. (Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, fascicule 32). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1979. Pp. 153. No price stated.
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Technology and Instruments - F. A. B. Ward, A catalogue of European scientific instruments in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum. London: British Museum Publications, 1981, Pp. 152 + Pl. 61. £50.00.
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Mathematical Sciences - Thomas L. Hankins, Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Pp. xxi + 474. $32.50/£19.50.
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Technology and Instruments - Transport Technology and Social Change. Papers delivered at Tekniska Museet Symposium No 2, Stockholm, 1979. Ed. by Per Sörbom. Stockholm: Tekniska Museet, 1980. Pp 296. Sw Kr 110/$25.00.
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Alchemy and Parapsychology - Seymour H. Mauskopf and Michael R. McVaugh, The elusive science: origins of experimental psychical research, Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 368. £14.75/$30.60.
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Mathematical Sciences - W. K. Bühler, Gauss. A biographical study. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981. Pp. 208 DM39.00; approx. US $17.80. ISBN 3-540-10662-6.
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Alchemy and Parapsychology - Antoine Faivre and Rolf Christian Zimmermann (eds.), Epochen der Naturmystik. Hermetische Tradition im wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1979. Pp. 459. DM. 128.
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Technology and Instruments - Stephen K. Victor (ed.) Practical geometry in the high middle ages. Artis cuiuslibet consummatio, and the Pratike de geometrie. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1979. Pp. xii + 638. (No price stated.)
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Life Sciences - Li Hui-Lin, Nan-fang ts'ao-mu chuang: a fourth century flora of Southeast Asia. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 168. £9.00.
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Alchemy and Parapsychology - Marsha P. Hannen, Margaret J. Osler, and Robert G. Weyant (eds.), Science, pseudo-science and society, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1980. Pp. x + 303. $7.50.
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Mathematical Sciences - J. V. Grabiner, The origins of Cauchy's rigorous calculus. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. press, 1981. Pp. x + 252. £17.50.
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Biography - Richard S. Westfall, Never at rest: a biography of Isaac Newton, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press1981. Pp. xviii + 908. £25.00.
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Life Sciences - G. C. Ainsworth, Introduction to the history of plant pathology. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 315. £27.50.
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Mathematical Sciences - J. A. Benett, The mathematical science of Christopher Wren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 148. £15.00. ISBN 0-521-24608-3.
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Biography - Charles Lyte, Sir Joseph Banks: Eighteenth Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur, Newton Abbot: David and Charles. 1980. Pp. 248. £10.50.
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Mathematical Sciences - J. L. Heilbron & Bruce R. Wheaton, Literature on the history of physics in the twentieth century. Berkeley: University of California Office for History of Science and Technology, 1981. Pp. xi + 485. No price stated. ISBN 0-918102-012-2. - David De Vorkin, The history of modern astronomy and astrophysics. A selected, annotated, bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982. Pp. xxvii + 434. $65.00. ISBN 0-8240-9283-X.
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Life Sciences - John C. Greene, Science, ideology, and world view: essays in the history of evolutionary ideas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Pp x + 202. £11.50/$20.60; £4.00/$7.45 (paperback).
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